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The former common-law spouse of Mayor Rob Ford’s sister has launched a $1.5 million lawsuit, claiming the civic leader ordered a jail house attack that left him badly injured.

Scott MacIntyre alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that while he was in custody at Metro West Detention Centre in 2012 for threatening the mayor, former Don Bosco football player Aedan Petros beat him after issuing a warning earlier for him “to keep his mouth shut.”

Ford was a long-time head coach of Don Bosco and his pal, Payman Aboodowleh, helped him coach the team for several years up until last season when Ford was fired by school board officials.

MacIntyre claims Ford and Aboodowleh ordered the March 22, 2012 attack which, he said, left him with a fractured left leg, facial cuts and dental damage. Four or more of his teeth were sheared at the gum line, the lawsuit alleged.

None of the allegations have been tested in court. Ford has not yet filed a statement of defence.

Ford’s lawyer Dennis Morris said the mayor “denies the allegations and will defend this civil lawsuit,” paying for these expensive civil proceedings himself.

“It’s a planned attack meant to shame Ford and it’s another drop in the bucket of baseless allegations,” insisted Morris.

MacIntyre, then 46, was being held on allegations he uttered threats against the mayor while trying to recover a debt owed by his sister Kathy.

Morris noted after MacIntyre was convicted, Ford offered his support by telling the sentencing judge he didn’t want to see the guilty man go to jail.

MacIntyre was sentenced to five months in jail on top of 197 days of pre-trial custody.

The lawsuit claims Ford’s former players Petros and Rexford Williams, who were awaiting trial on violent home invasion robbery charges, threatened MacIntyre after he stated he would expose Rob Ford’s drug use and association with criminals.

MacIntyre was later attacked by Petros and other unknown inmates outside the showers, according to the allegations.

Ford’s drunken, drug-using behaviour was not widely known in early 2012 and he was “anxious that these matters should remain undiscovered,” the claim alleged.

The claim also said the Minsitry of Correctional Services failed to protect MacIntyre and respond promptly to his medical needs after he was severely injured.

While in jail, MacIntyre wrote a letter to the mayor’s sister, Kathy Ford, on Jan. 27, 2012, which came to the mayor’s attention.

“He understood it to be a threat” by MacIntyre to disclose Ford’s drug and alcohol abuse and cavorting with criminals, the lawsuit alleged.

The lawsuit alleged that despite the fact that correctional officers normally monitor the showers, “nobody came to MacIntyre’s aid.”

He also wasn’t transported to hospital until 36 hours after he sustained his serious injuries, the lawsuit alleged. He didn’t receive dental care for almost two months after the attack, the claim alleged.